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Re: spawn question [message #60604 is a reply to message #60603]

Sun, 01 June 2008 11:09

russ[1]
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Registered: April 2008

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On 31 May, 17:21, Vince Hradil <hrad...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 31, 5:20 am, russ <rlaybe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> this may be a tupid question and it might be that i am an idiot,
>> but...
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>> i want to spawn a process
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>> cmd='ls -l'
>> spawn,cmd
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>> i am actually doing this with a GET command and it sometimes hangs
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>> if i try
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>> spawn,cmd,/nowait
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>> it tells me
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>> Keyword NOWAIT not allowed in call to: SPAWN
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>> but it says it is in the help?
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>> any ideas?
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>> thanks
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>> russ
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> Your using the GET command? So what exactly are you spawning?- Hide quoted text -
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I'm spawning

cmd='GET http://www.etc > outfile.txt'
spawn,cmd

to get a webpage into a filer which then i can read

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		Re: spawn question By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 02 June 2008 06:48
		Re: spawn question By: Vince Hradil on Sun, 01 June 2008 15:41
		Re: spawn question By: russ[1] on Sun, 01 June 2008 12:25
		Re: spawn question By: Vince Hradil on Sun, 01 June 2008 11:33
		Re: spawn question By: russ[1] on Sun, 01 June 2008 11:09
		Re: spawn question By: Vince Hradil on Sat, 31 May 2008 09:21
		Re: spawn question By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Sat, 31 May 2008 04:59

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